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Titre
Mapping Cairo: Modern literary representations of the city
Sujet
, littérature, espace urbain, histoire urbaine, Cairo, Le Caire, Mehrez Samia
Description
Extract from a review of Mehrez's lecture, "Celebrating Cairo's 'Underground Historians'" by Nadeen Shaker:
During the second of the Provost Lecture Series “Mapping Cairo: Modern Literary Representations of the City,” Mehrez discussed a map of Cairo she created using literary constructions found in century-old texts.
Mehrez introduced the Islamic genre of Khitat literature, a social history of the nations under Muslim rule in the Middle Ages, which she focused on in her recently published book, The Literary Atlas of Cairo, an AUC Press publication.
She used it to offer a historiographical – also known as a narrative presentation of history – map that evokes a spatial sense of Cairo.